Tubular Apartment Prototype Hopes to Solve Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis
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Today?s cities are becoming denser and denser all the time. As people continue to move to urban zones from rural areas, many cities find themselves scrambling to meet the demand that is being placed on them. More often than not, there’s simply not enough room for everyone, causing the prices of houses and apartments in the area to skyrocket. Subsequently, architects and designers are constantly having to come up with innovative solutions to battle major housing crises.
Now, an experimental architecture and design practice has come up with a prototype solution to meet the city of Hong Kong?s housing needs. James Law Cybertecture takes an innovative approach to architecture and urbanism to produce made-to-order, original, and practical solutions to a wide range of challenges. One of the firm’s newest ideas is “OPod Tube Housing,” a series of compact and stackable apartment units made from the standardized concrete water pipes commonly used in large-scale engin...
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